The sampler has nine rows of alphabets and numbers separated by narrow and decorative crossbands including attractive flowers and vines. The signature line reads:
Ann Ballard Pollitt Febuary 26th 1838

Ann Ballard Pollitt was born in the city of Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky on January 4, 1827, to James Ballard Pollitt, age thirty-two, (1794-1832) and Elizabeth Robertson Cabell, age seventeen (1809-1852) (see ancillary image of Elizabeth Cabell). She had one sister Virginia James Pollitt (1830-1893) and after the death of her father on October 28, 1832, her mother married Archibald Dixon (1802-1876) and Ann Ballard Pollitt had five half-brothers and two half-sisters from this union.
On March 23, 1852, at twenty-five years old, Ann Ballard Pollitt married Lafayette F. Jones, MD (1826-1866) in Henderson, County, Kentucky and they had two daughters, Elizabeth Pollitt Jones (1855-1938) and Mary “Mollie” Ballard Jones (1856-?), both born in Henderson County, Kentucky. Lafayette died (at forty years old) in Henderson County, Kentucky on October 11, 1866. (see ancillary image)
Ann Ballard Pollitt died and was buried in Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky on January 28, 1903, where she was interred in the Fernwood Cemetery alongside her husband. (see ancillary images)